Madness and memory : the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease / Stanley B. Prusiner.

By: Prusiner, Stanley B, 1942- [author.]Material type: TextTextDescription: xix, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 9780300191141 (cloth : alk. paper); 0300191146 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942- | Physicians -- United States -- Biography | Prions -- History | Prion diseases -- History | Physicians -- Autobiography | History, 20th Century | History, 21st Century | Prions -- historyGenre/Form: Biography. | History. DDC classification: 610.92 | B LOC classification: R690 | .P78 2014NLM classification: 2014 G-496 | WZ 100 | WZ 100
Contents:
Growing up -- The beginning of an odyssey -- A plethora of theories -- The scrapie race -- Dr. America and the trembling cannibals -- The battle for tenure -- What's in a name? -- Lost in the Pacific fog -- The amyloid story -- Finding the gene -- Jousting with the press -- Deciphering human prion diseases -- What's in a shape? -- Turf battles -- Mad cow and other prion strains -- Stockholm -- The third judgment of Paris -- Epilogue : the quest for therapeutics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index.

Growing up -- The beginning of an odyssey -- A plethora of theories -- The scrapie race -- Dr. America and the trembling cannibals -- The battle for tenure -- What's in a name? -- Lost in the Pacific fog -- The amyloid story -- Finding the gene -- Jousting with the press -- Deciphering human prion diseases -- What's in a shape? -- Turf battles -- Mad cow and other prion strains -- Stockholm -- The third judgment of Paris -- Epilogue : the quest for therapeutics.

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